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Russia is planning to briefly disconnect from the internet as part of planning for a future cyber-war. The test will mean data passing between Russian citizens and organisations stays inside the nation rather than being routed internationally. A law mandating technical changes needed to operate

Kremlin to discuss taking control of the .ru domain and measures to disconnect Russians from the web in the event of unrest.

Vladimir Putin has dominated the Russian political scene for almost two decades, currently serving his fourth term as the president. TIME magazine named him Person of the Year in 2007 and Forbes ranked him the world’s most powerful man from 2013 to 2016—four times in a row. Here are some interesting facts you should know about the Russian leader.

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Image caption The net independence plan is seen as a way for Russia 's government to get more Russia is considering whether to disconnect from the global internet briefly, as part of a test of its Analysis: Zoe Kleinman, BBC technology reporter. How does an entire country " unplug " itself from

The Russian segment of the internet , intended especially for civil servants, is already working, Klimenko noted. He also reminded people that “The internet is being regulated in all countries and Russia is no exception. However, extreme options like North Korean or Cuba are not our choice,” he

Humble beginnings

Born on Oct. 7, 1952, he grew up in a communal apartment block (pictured) in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, the Russian city ravaged in World War II. He shared the fifth-floor walk-up with his parents and two siblings.

Family life

He married Lyudmila in 1983, and the couple had two daughters: Maria and Katerina. The children went to school under assumed names for security reasons. In April 2014, Putin's divorce from his wife of 30 years was finalized.

Putin-themed Apple Watch

A gold-coated Apple Watch (pictured), which also depicts the Moscow skyline and the double-headed eagle of Russia’s coat of arms, was made by the Russian-Italian jewelry brand, Caviar Perna Penna in 2015. Priced at 197,000 rubles ($3,073), only 999 units of the “Putin Apple Watch” were made.

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The Kremlin is considering radical plans to unplug Russia from the global internet in the event of a serious military confrontation or big anti-government protests at home, Russian officials hinted on Friday. President Vladimir Putin will convene a meeting of his security council on Monday.

Russian lawmakers have introduced legislation designed to reduce the country's internet resources’ dependence on foreign infrastructure. The document envisions setting up national groundwork to keep Russia ’s internet functional, even if servers abroad become unavailable for any reason.

Underwater explorer

On Aug. 18, 2015, Putin took a ride in a mini-submarine (pictured) to explore the ruins of a 9th or 10th-century Byzantine trading ship in Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in 2014. He’s also done this in 2013 when he dove in a submersible in the Gulf of Finland to explore the remains of a naval frigate.

TIME magazine cover

Renowned photographer Platon clicked Putin for the TIME magazine cover, a simple head-shot that went on to win the World Press Photo 2008 award in Portraits Singles category. Platon and Putin also bonded over their love for The Beatles during the shoot, with the Russian president revealing that “Yesterday” was his favorite Beatles number.

Martial arts buff

He started training in judo in 1964. An avid martial artist, Putin earned the fifth-degree black belt in judo in 2001, the highest ranked ninth-dan in taekwondo in 2013 and the eighth-dan black belt in karate in 2014.

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(Pictured) Putin takes part in a judo training session during a meeting with the Russian national judo team in Moscow, Russia, on Jan. 8, 2016.

Animal lover

The Russian president is a known dog lover. He named his Bulgarian Shepherd, Buffy (R), after holding a nationwide naming contest. His other dog is an Akita Inu named Yume (L). Most of his pets were gifted to him, including a goat Skazka, a dwarf horse named Vadik and even a Siberian tiger cub. In 2017, he was presented with an alabai puppy, a home-bred Turkmen variety of the Central Asia shepherd dog, by Turkmenistan's President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov as a belated birthday gift.

KGB ties

After a stint at law school, Putin joined the KGB (main security agency for the Soviet Union until its collapse in 1991), rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. During that period, he was posted in East Germany and monitored foreigners and consular officials in the main intelligence office there.

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Putin has radical plans to unplug Russia from the global internet in the event of a serious military confrontation or big anti-government protests at home. However, Russia would not be “disconnecting itself.” Moscow does not want to unplug the World Wide Web, but wishes to “ensure its own security”

I’m the managing editor for a few websites and a contributing editor for a few others. Websites happen to be on the Internet ; a job that revolves around websites tends to require that you use the Internet . Then take a complete 30-minute break to unplug from the work.

Expert in German

Apart from Russian, Putin learned German in high school and speaks it fluently. He acted as an interpreter for German Chancellor Angela Merkel during her 2013 trip to Russia. He rarely uses English but “can express myself more or less" in the language, according to an interview given to Newsweek.

Powerful run

Putin has time and again won overall approval of Russian citizens. In elections, he won 53 percent of the vote in 2000 and 73 percent in 2004, while his ally Dmitry Medvedev won 70 percent votes in 2008. According to a June 2017 Pew Research Center survey, 87 percent of Russians have some or a lot of confidence in Putin’s handling of global issues.

Religious

Vladimir Putin’s father was an atheist and his mother was a devout Orthodox Christian. His mother secretly baptized him into the Orthodox Church as an infant as the religion practitioners were persecuted at the time.

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The Kremlin is considering unplugging Russia from the global Internet . Russian authorities say the extreme measure would only be taken in the event of

Sports fan

The Russian president is all for promoting sports in the country. In 2010, he signed a deal with F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone to bring Formula One racing to Russia for seven seasons, from 2014 to 2020 in Sochi.

(Pictured) Putin in a Renault Formula One team car at a racing track in the Leningrad Region on Nov. 7, 2010.

Love for wildlife

After tracking and tranquilizing tigers and polar bears with researchers and scientists, Putin took his love for wildlife to another level in 2012 (pictured) when he flew a motorized deltaplane light aircraft in the Yamal Peninsula to lead Siberian cranes, raised in captivity, on a migration route.

Musical talent

Putin showed off his pipes during a 2010 charity event in St. Petersburg when he sang Fat Domino’s “Blueberry Hill” in front of an audience that included Sharon Stone, Kevin Costner and Goldie Hawn. His spokesperson later said Putin learned the lyrics in his English class.

Love for Russian wheels

Putin drives a yellow Lada Kalina, an ivory-colored vintage Volga GAZ-21 and a black Niva, all Russian car brands. He’s even had the then-U.S. President George W. Bush (pictured) take over the wheels of the Volga on his visit to Russia. His non-Russian cars include an armored Mercedes-Benz S 600 Guard Pullman and a Mercedes Geländewagen.

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Internet in Russia or Russian Internet and sometimes Runet (using first two letters from Russian plus net) is a part of the Internet which is related to Russia . As of 2015 Internet access in Russia is available to businesses and to home users in various forms, including dial-up, cable, DSL, FTTH

He said authorities were not planning to disconnect Russian cyberspace from the global web but needed to take measures to protect the country from Asked whether Russia was preparing measures that would allow officials to unplug the Russian segment from the global Internet , Peskov said

Firefighting pilot

Brand

One can find T-shirts with Putin’s face in gift stores across the country. The Putin brand can also be seen highlighted in Putinka, a vodka made by the state-owned Moscow Distillery Cristall company and PuTin canned foods made by Astrakhan Canned-food Plant.

Putinisms

Putin has made certain catchphrases uttered during his annual Q&A sessions, wherein he takes questions from anyone across the country, really popular. An example is “shearing a pig,” a phrase he used when asked why he hadn’t extradited Edward Snowden, the U.S. whistleblower, in 2013. Putin said he won’t respond to that issue because “it's like shearing a pig — lots of squeal but little wool.”

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Major disruption

The draft law, called the Digital Economy National Program, requires Russia's ISPs to ensure that it can operate in the event of foreign powers acting to isolate the country online.

Nato and its allies have threatened to sanction Russia over the cyber-attacks and other online interference which it is regularly accused of instigating.

The measures outlined in the law include Russia building its own version of the net's address system, known as DNS, so it can operate if links to these internationally-located servers are cut.

Currently, 12 organisations oversee the root servers for DNS and none of them are in Russia. However many copies of the net's core address book do already exist inside Russia suggesting its net systems could keep working even if punitive action was taken to cut it off.

The test is also expected to involve ISPs demonstrating that they can direct data to government-controlled routing points. These will filter traffic so that data sent between Russians reaches its destination, but any destined for foreign computers is discarded.

Eventually the Russian government wants all domestic traffic to pass through these routing points. This is believed to be part of an effort to set up a mass censorship system akin to that seen in China, which tries to scrub out prohibited traffic.

Russian news organisations reported that the nation's ISPs are broadly backing the aims of the draft law but are divided on how to do it. They believe the test will cause "major disruption" to Russian internet traffic, reports tech news website ZDNet.

The Russian government is providing cash for ISPs to modify their infrastructure so the redirection effort can be properly tested.

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